InfoSec Handlers Diary Blog

IIS Exploit Released
Today an exploit for a vulnerability on IIS became public available. This exploit targets one of the 14 vulnerabilities fixed on Microsoft MS04-011 Security Update, the SSL Vulnerability (Denial Of Service).
Although this is a DoS exploit, due the amount of vulnerabilities fixed on the recent patches, exploits with remote code execution may be expected soon.

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We are still receiving complaints about users having problems downloading MS Patches released yesterday. This behavior could be due to the load caused by the updates released yesterday.

Gaobot.XZ

A new variant of Gaobot is also scanning port 5000 besides the common ports, trying to explore an old vulnerability of the UPnP service , described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS01-059.

Judging by the recent variants, looks like the virus writers are trying, more than usual, get unpatched machines, both exploring services,a la UPnP , and applications , i.e. Netsky.P, which was exploring a vulnerability in Internet Explorer, released in 2001.